Portable Draughts Notation

  [Event "itsyourturn.com USA vs. World 8/04"]
 [Site ""]
 [Date "2004.08.23"]
 [Round "1"]
 [Black "Lindus Edwards"]
 [White "Anthony Perez"]
 [Result "1 / 2-1 / 2"]

 1. 11-15 23-18 2. 8-11 26-23 {Crescent Cross} 3. 10-14 30-26 4. 6-10 24-19 5.
 15-24 27-20 * {28-19 loses PP} 6. 4-8 {the popular book line is 12-16 28-24 4-8
 22-17 * 8-12 32-28 * = same} 32-27 {Perez 'cook;  28-24 apparently goes to the
 previous note} 7. 12-16 {seems to be the only move with any strength} 27-24 8.
 8-12 22-17 {returning to the book line mentioned earlier} 9. 10-15 17-10 10.
 7-14 26-22 * 1 / 2-1 / 2 {a very popular position} 1 / 2-1 / 2

  [Event "The Royal Tour"]
 [Site ""]
 [Date "??"]
 [Round "1"]
 [Black "a"]
 [White "b"]
 [Result "1-0"]
 [Setup "1"]
 [FEN "W: W27,19,18,11,7,6,5: B28,26,25,20,17,10,9,4,3,2."]

 {27-24 Beginning a spectacular shot in which White pitches (almost) all his men
 } 1. 19-15 10x19 2. 5-1 3x10 3. 11-8 4x11 4. 27-24 20x27 5. 18-14 9x18 6. 1-5
 2x9 {2-9 and now the coup de grace that inspired the name of this problem ...}
 7.5x32 {5-32 (Several different jumping sequences are possible, for example 5
 x 14 x 7 x 16 x 23 x 14 x 21 x 30 x 23 x 32) White Wins.  As an interesting side
 note, this nine-piece jump is the theoretical maximum number of pieces it is
 possible to jump in a single turn in checkers (try setting up a 10-piece jump -
 the board lacks sufficient space!)} 1-0

  [Event "WK 2003"]
 [Site "Zwartewaterland, Netherlands"]
 [Round "1"]
 [Date "2003.05.23"]
 [White "Ndjofang, JM"]
 [Black "Heusdens, R."]
 [Result "1 / 2-1 / 2"]
 [GameType "20"]

 1. 32-28 17-22 2. 28x17 12x21 3. 31-26 7-12 4. 26x17 12x21 5. 36-31 19-23 6.
 34-29 23x34 7. 39x30 20-24 8. 30x19 14x23 9. 37-32 21-27 10. 31x22 18x27 11.
 32x21 16x27 12. 41-37 10-14 13. 46-41 11-17 14. 33-29 23x34 15. 40x29 6-11 16.
 35-30 14-20 17. 45-40 20-24 18. 30x19 13x33 19. 38x29 5-10 20. 42-38 10-14 21.
 44-39 8-12 22. 40-34 14-19 23. 50-44 2-7 24. 48-42 19-23 25. 29x18 12x23 26.
 39-33 7-12 27. 33-28 23x32 28. 37x28 9-13 29. 44-39 3-9 30. 38-33 9-14 31.
 34-30 17-21 32. 33-29 21-26 33. 43-38 1-7 34. 41-37 11-17 35. 39-34 7-11 36.
 30-24 11-16 37. 34-30 27-31 38. 28-23 16-21 39. 30-25 12-18 40. 23x12 17x8
 1 / 2-1 / 2

Tags are indicated by square brackets []. They include a variety of information.

Gametype

Designation of checkers games:

  0 Chess
 1 Chinese chess
 2-19 Reserve for possible future chess games
 20 International Drafts
 21 English drafts
 22 Italian Checkers
 23 American Pool Checkers
 24 Spanish Checkers
 25 Russian drafts
 26 Brazilian drafts
 27 Canadian Checkers
 28 Portuguese checkers
 29 Czech drafts
 30 Turkish drafts
 31 Thai checkers
 40 Friesian drafts
 41 Checkers Spanzireti (80-cell)
 42–49 Reserve for possible future drafts
 50 Othello ( Reversi )
 51— ... Reserve for possible future games [1] 

Event

tournament or match name

Site

the place where the party was held. The IOC three-letter code is used to designate countries.

Date

Game date

Round

Tour number in the tournament, match

White

The name of the player playing white

Black

Black player name

Result

The result of the game. Values: “1-0” (White won), “0-1” (Black won), “1 / 2-1 / 2” (draw), or “*” (other, for example, if the game is not finished)

Fen

Record the starting position if it was different from the standard layout. Required when recording part of a part. The FEN tag must be prefixed with the Setup tag.

Turn

The sequence of the first move, if the recording is not from the beginning of the game, but from an arbitrary starting position. It takes values B for black, W for white.

Color 1 and Color 2

board field color

K

designation lady ( English king )

Square number

numeric field designation

Example

  [FEN "B: W18,24,27,28, K10, K15: B12,16,20, K22, K25, K29"]

  [FEN "B: W18,19,21,23,24,26,29,30,31,32: B1,2,3,4,6,7,9,10,11,12"]

Comments are included through ";" or "{" "}".

• Portable Game Notation - Chess Format

• PDN 3.0 Specification